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Foreign Affairs and The Law

Pop Culture

Top Shows on Broadway

Top Shows on Broadway

Musicals

  • Oklahoma! (1943)

  • Carousel (1945)

  • Annie Get Your Gun (1946)

  • Kiss Me Kate (1948)

 

Plays

  • Native Son (1941)

  • The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)

  • The Duchess of Malfi (Brecht) (1943)

  • The Good Person of Szechwan (1943)

  • Antigone (Anouilh) (1944)

  • The Glass Menagerie (1944)

  • State of the Union (1945)

  • Home of the Brave (1946)

  • Peace in our Time (1946)

(1947 – First Annual Tony Award)

  • All My Sons (1947)

  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) 

Film

Movies in the 1940s, like everything else at the time, were dominated by the war. However, instead of facing shortages like most people, the industry was well supported by the government thanks to its morale boosting qualities.

 

Some of the Most Well Known Movie Stars of the Forties
Clark Gable
Bing Crosby couple
Humphrey Bogart
Abbott and Costello
Gary Cooper
Spencer Tracy
James Cagney

Jimmy Stewart

Music

Rhythm and blues Music becomes popular and the beginnings of Rock and roll

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Popular musicians

  • Frank Sinatra

  • Ink Spots

  • Bing Crosby

  • Duke Ellington

  • Perry Como

  • Andrews Sisters 

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http://www.retrowaste.com/1940s/

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1940s.html

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1946.html

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